National Senior Campuses, Inc. (NSC) is operated as a not–for–profit organization committed to providing housing, health care (including elder care and nursing care) and other related services to middle income seniors.

NSC is organized as a "Supporting Organization" under the Internal Revenue Service Code and therefore, provides oversight, supervision, management and strategic planning for supported not–for–profit organizations that own and operate continuing care retirement communities.

Through its relationship with Erickson Retirement Communities LLC (ERC), NSC evaluates and sponsors the development of new communities by ERC that meet NSC's demographic, market and other criteria consistent with its mission. Once a new community is sponsored, NSC provides strategic planning support for the new community's long–term financing, governance and operating structure as well as oversight of the development during the eight to ten year development period. When residents begin moving to a community (usually in the second year of the development phase), NSC's support expands to include operating policy support, and support for oversight of consolidated functions such as finance, human resources, compliance, legal, audit, etc.

NSC and its Supported Organizations are independent of ERC. Their relationship with ERC is limited to contractual arrangements related to development, acquisition and operations management of the communities.

The Board of NSC currently consists of 11 independent directors, each of whom brings a particular expertise to the Board. To assure that NSC is responsive to its Supported Organizations that own and operate the communities, at least one of the directors of each Supported Organization is also a director of NSC. This allows each Supported Organization to have representation and influence over the policies and activities of NSC.

The support provided by NSC allows the Boards of Directors of each Supported Organization to focus on the various issues that are particular to each separate community while adhering to "best practices" in governance and operations.